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Short-course Benznidazole treatment to reduce Trypanosoma cruzi parasitic load in women of reproductive age (BETTY): a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial study protocol
BACKGROUND: Retrospective observational studies suggest that transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi does not occur in treated women when pregnant later in life. The level of parasitemia is a known risk factor for congenital transmission. Benznidazole (BZN) is the drug of choice for preconceptional treatm...
Autores principales: | Cafferata, María L., Toscani, María A., Althabe, Fernando, Belizán, Jose M., Bergel, Eduardo, Berrueta, Mabel, Capparelli, Edmund V., Ciganda, Álvaro, Danesi, Emmaria, Dumonteil, Eric, Gibbons, Luz, Gulayin, Pablo E., Herrera, Claudia, Momper, Jeremiah D., Rossi, Steven, Shaffer, Jeffrey G., Schijman, Alejandro G., Sosa-Estani, Sergio, Stella, Candela B., Klein, Karen, Buekens, Pierre |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7446054/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32831069 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12978-020-00972-1 |
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